Those Things Which I Am Saying Now

Among The Authorities It Is Generally Agreed That The Earth Is At Rest In The Middle Of The Universe, And They Regard It As Inconceivable And Even Ridiculous To Hold The Opposite Opinion. However, If We Consider It More Closely The Question Will Be Seen To Be Still Unsettled, And So Decidedly Not To Be Despised. For Every Apparent Change In Respect Of Position Is Due To Motion Of The Object Observed, Or Of The Observer, Or Indeed To An Unequal Change Of Both.

When, Therefore, I Had Long Considered This Uncertainty Of Traditional Mathematics, It Began To Weary Me That No More Definite Explanation Of The Movement Of The World-machine Established In Our Behalf By The Best And Most Systematic Builder Of All, Existed Among The Philosophers Who Had Studied So Exactly In Other Respects The Minutest Details In Regard To The Sphere.

So, Influenced By These Advisors And This Hope, I Have At Length Allowed My Friends To Publish The Work, As They Had Long Besought Me To Do.

Finally We Shall Place The Sun Himself At The Center Of The Universe. All This Is Suggested By The System Of Procession Of Events And The Harmony Of The Whole Universe, If Only We Face The Facts, As They Say, "with Eyes Wide Open."

Nations Are Not Ruined By One Act Of Violence, But Gradually And In An Almost Imperceptible Manner By The Depreciation Of Their Circulating Currency, Through Its Excessive Quantity.